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You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.

Pat Summitt

I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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Academics Basket Ball Greatness Sports Yourself
No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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Examination Feeling Reality Strength Strong Weakness Yourself
You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Appearance Choice Day Tired Yourself
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Common Discipline Effort Goal Group
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
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Cost Family Head Myself Obligation Reward
There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
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Game Player Reach Time
I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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Myself Style Thinking
I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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Better Improvement Ourselves Team Thinking
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Equality Oragnization Powerful Responsibility Team Weapon
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
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Change Equality Improvement Place Yourself
I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Care Player Teaching Yourself
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Born Character Face Natural Share Team Work
Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
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Natural Teaching Team Work
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
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Need Strength Weakness
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking Yourself
If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
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Acceptance Responsibility Sit Yourself
I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Myself Recruit Thinking
Make Winning an Attitude.
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Attitude One Liner Win
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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Champion Different Face Myself National Sports Time Win
I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Belief Combination Faith Interest Myself Success
Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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End Perspective Start Success Yourself
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Myself Personal Record Sound Thinking Time

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